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1 week ago | naturalgasintel.com | Carolyn Davis |Jacob Dick |Christopher Lenton |Andrew Baker

Natural gas will continue to surge from Permian Basin oil wells regardless of additional drilling, allowing Diamondback Energy Inc. to “keep putting more firm transportation on the balance sheet,” CEO Travis Stice said Tuesday. Speaking with investors during a first quarter conference call, Stice said he expects more natural gas to exit the Permian as more infrastructure now in the works comes online. “We have about 750 MMcf/d of total commitments that will be in place by the end of ‘26,” he said.

1 week ago | naturalgasintel.com | Jacob Dick |Christopher Lenton |Andrew Baker |Carolyn Davis

A look at the global natural gas and LNG markets by the numbers• 14.33 million Dth- U.S. feed gas demand ticked back up Wednesday after an outage at Freeport LNG combined with flow reductions from planned maintenance at other Gulf Coast facilities. Freeport LNG told Texas environmental regulators the facility's three trains were offline for several hours Tuesday after a power feed interruption in the mid-morning.

1 week ago | naturalgasintel.com | Christopher Lenton |Jacob Dick |Andrew Baker |Carolyn Davis

Producers of natural gas in West Texas have been clamoring for takeaway for booming associated gas output and Mexico is raising its hand as one possible solution. NGI spoke to Daniel Bustos, the CEO of Esentia Energy Systems, the company that runs Mexico's largest private interconnected natural gas system, known as Wahalajara. The system stretches from the Waha Hub in the Permian Basin in West Texas down through a series of pipelines to Guadalajara in Mexico.

1 week ago | naturalgasintel.com | Jacob Dick |Christopher Lenton |Andrew Baker |Carolyn Davis

Energy Transfer LP (ET) management said international demand for U.S. natural gas is continuing to push its Lake Charles LNG project closer to the finish line as the midstreamer works to finalize three more offtake agreements in the coming days. After years of development, Dallas-based ET kickstarted a new wave of momentum late last year for the long-proposed terminal with additional supply contracts and negotiations for its existing agreements.

1 week ago | naturalgasintel.com | Jacob Dick |Christopher Lenton |Andrew Baker |Carolyn Davis

Some of Europe’s largest industrial end-users are accelerating their search for more competitive natural gas in markets such as North America, but growing uncertainty about the U.S.-China trade war is complicating economic outlooks. After another quarter of high energy prices cutting into its margins, Dow Inc. disclosed it was expanding its plans to shut down or idle production units in Europe.